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It's not as if disk space is at such a premium that a few kilobytes of text is going to financially collapse Wikipedia.

That's not the reason for deletionism. The reason is that your average Wikipedia reader (not editor) will take most of what they read on Wikipedia as fact. Wikipedia articles bubble up to the top of search engine queries. Unless editor and administrators are conservative, Wikipedia will be filled with unnecessary, non-notable, low-quality articles that can mislead readers.

Myself, I'm still wrestling with my own stance on this issue, but I think for now I'm leaning toward deletionism, because I've seen so many articles created that were clearly someone's pet project; e.g. ridiculously specific articles filled with jargon and newly-coined on some inscrutable metaphysics thesis topic.

Psh, easy. Barack Obama.

You know how articles for Chinese names have a {{chinese-name|[[Zhang (surname)|Zhang]]}} template? Maybe it would be useful to include such a template for transgender and transsexual people, to let the reader know that pronouns can vary and such. Only problem is that it might unnecessarily put trans people on blast at the very top of their article.

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What is your opinion on the general Vietnam War, and America's involvement in Asia during the Cold War?

Outside of spreading awareness of remaining bombs and mines in Laos as a humanitarian issue, do you consider yourself a politically active and outspoken person?

In a few words, what can the average American do to clear mines and bombs out of countries like Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc.?